Gun Safety Rules

[Crakkerjakk]

Originally Posted by Lupo

In the US (or any other country), there is a percentage of population far greater than 1% which could never own/use a car, due to extreme poverty, mental/physical disabilities and so on.

Just the prison population of the US is about 1% of the total population, and about 0,5% of the total population is at least occasionally homeless...

True, I was conflating "own a car" and "in a household where someone owns a car" in my mind. I think around 20% of the population is under 16, and they can't own cars either.

That said, I wonder what the percentages are on households where someone owns a car. The US actually has about the same number of guns and cars (roughly 250 million registered firearms and passenger vehicles) but I'm guessing it's more than half of households that have a car, like it is with guns.

EDIT: Looks like roughly 95% of US households have a car. So my original guesstimate was about right.